Dhol-Lezim (Lejim) mandal dance troupe (Ram Mandir Gawli: Ram Temple Milkmen) perform a baithak (seated) dance. Percussionists stand and play a tāsa shallow bowl drum (left) and a large ḍhol (center) while seated dancers play jhāñjh bronze cymbals and lezim sticks with jingling cymbals loosely attached.
Classical musicians perform at the shop of Abdul Karim Ismail Saheb. A cloth is stuffed into the bell of the shehnai. A man playing a surpeṭī (free reed aerophone used for drone) accompanies.
A young Koyā man with a ḍolu double-headed membranophone, holding a thick wooden stick in his right hand. Two boys, one holding a toddler, a young man, and two elderly men watch. Nehrunagar, Palwañcā, Khammam District, Telangana.<br>Ref: Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy, A musical journey through India, 1963-1964 (Department of Ethnomusicology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1988), CD example 5.6.